"Fox’s Greening of the Emmy Awards is More Greenwashing by Climate Destroyer Rupert Murdoch"

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More Greenwashing by Murdoch’s Anti-Green, Anti-Humanity Newscorp

So I received a lengthy email from the PR wizards at Fox. The subject line, “FOX GOES GREEN FOR RED CARPET ARRIVALS — Press Release and Photos.” Apparently they believe all caps makes their greenwashing more compelling. #FAIL.

Rolling Stone was correct when they labeled Murdoch last year, one of the “The Climate Killers: 17 polluters and deniers who are derailing efforts to curb the climate catastrophe.”

The email I was sent had this absurd logo Fox has been using:

The point, of course, is that they don’t mean it. Climate Progress readers know that I am all in favor of individual and corporate action — indeed I spent over 10 years working with companies to help them adopt greenhouse gas targets and clean energy. The Climate Savers program I helped World Wildlife Fund launch reduced CO2 emissions “by over 50 million tons by the end of 2010″ — businesses from IBM and Johnson & Johnson to LaFarge and Sony.

But all the individual corporate action in the world can’t make up for the lack of serious climate and clean energy legislation in this country, which Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has done more than any other to squash, indeed to make politically untenable for an entire political party in this country. It is immoral and inexcusable and couldn’t be justified by the purchase of even a million solar panels.

And it’s sad, too, because Fox is doing some pretty interesting things to green itself. Here is the whole email I was sent:

FOX GOES GREEN FOR RED CARPET ARRIVALS

OF THE “63RD PRIMETIME EMMY® AWARDS”

FOX, in partnership with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, will bring clean energy to the 63RD PRIMETIME EMMY® AWARDS airing live Sunday, Sept. 18 (8:00-11:00 PM ET live/5:00-8:00 PM PT live) on FOX. Solar panels will provide power to the Primetime Emmys red carpet and, for the first time ever, FOX will donate the solar panels and the red carpet to local charities after the event. In addition, the 390-foot red carpet is the largest ever to be lit entirely by low-energy LED and fluorescent lighting.

This year’s red carpet is made from 25,000 square feet of locally-sourced recycled carpet, produced in the only LEED-certified carpet facility in the world. Made from 50% recycled content, the carpet will be donated after the awards to the Ronald McDonald House Long Beach and to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles.

FOX has also partnered with Kinetic Lighting to provide Prism Projection RevEAL Studio LED lighting fixtures throughout the red carpet area. The low-energy LED and fluorescent lighting will vastly reduce power consumption, using only approximately 20% of the power traditionally used for red carpet arrivals.

In addition, the red carpet will be powered by over 200 locally-manufactured solar panels. In the five days leading up to the broadcast, the solar panels, provided by SolarWorld, will produce approximately 925-kWh of energy—enough to power a typical family home for approximately two months. The solar panel system will be tied into the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power utility grid and will greatly reduce FOX’s power consumption.

After the event and with the support of SolarWorld, the solar panel system will be donated to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles, which will install the panels in sustainably built homes throughout the Los Angeles area. Once permanently installed, the system is expected to mitigate an average of approximately 90,000 pounds (or 45 tons) of CO2 each year (in addition to approximately 480 pounds of SO2 and 340 pounds of NOx), and will generate renewable energy for at least the next 25 years.

FOX’s goal for all special events is to have zero waste. -Therefore, all food waste and biodegradable disposables will be composted. In addition, all recyclable materials used during the event will be collected and sorted.

All signage will be printed with water-based inks either on recycled aluminum by AoSA or on eco-friendly and biodegradable materials.

The media press tent and red carpet are entirely incandescent-free. The tent will be illuminated by compact fluorescent and LED lamps. The red carpet will be lit by fluorescent and LED lighting, reducing the power need by approximately 80%.

The 25,000 square feet of arrivals red carpet is made of 50% recycled content – including 40% pre-consumer and 10% derived from post-consumer carpet. Additionally, the carpet is being produced locally by Bentley Prince Street whose factory is a mere 16 miles away.

In lieu of golf carts traditionally used by staff and crew at such events, bicycles from a previous event will be used on site.

Supplemental power will be provided by bio-diesel generators using UPS batteries. The batteries will signal the generator to turn on in the event of a power failure reducing the need to have generators running simultaneously.

A full recycling program is in place throughout the main show, media center and red carpet area to collect waste from batteries, paper, bottles, plastic and food.

Locally grown and/or organic foods will be provided by Chef Alan Jackson of Lemonade and served to production staff, press and event guests.

Events teams will use reusable serviceware including glasses, plates, silverware, serving platters and trays. Tables and chairs are rented and reusable.

All linens used in the media areas are rented and will be cleaned with environmentally-friendly laundry detergents.

All plants in the arrivals area and media areas are rented and therefore are considered reusable living plants (no cut plants).

SolarWorld is a worldwide leader in offering brand-name, high quality, crystalline solar-power technology. Its strength is its fully integrated solar production. From silicon as the raw material through wafers, cells and modules all the way to turn-key solar systems of all sizes, the group combines all stages of the solar value chain. The central business activity is selling quality modules into the installation and distribution trades and crystalline wafers to the international solar cell industry. Group headquarters are located in Bonn, Germany. The group´s largest production facilities operate in Freiberg, Germany and Hillsboro, OR. Sustainability is the basis of the group strategy. Under the name Solar2World, the group supports care projects using off-grid solar-power solutions in developing countries, exemplifying sustainable economic development. Worldwide, SolarWorld employs about 3,500 people. SolarWorld AG has been quoted on the stock exchange since 1999 and today is listed on, among others, the TecDAX and ÖkoDAX as well as in the sustainability index NAI.

Kinetic Lighting is an award-winning lighting company based in Glendale, California (Los Angeles area). We supply stage lighting and theatrical supplies — with a specialty in energy-efficient LED lighting — to a variety of clients throughout the world. The vast majority of our clients operate in entertainment, exhibit, publicity, social events and retail markets. The lighting services we offer include event lighting services, lighting rentals and sales, lighting design and repair services.

News Corp now brags “we are the world’s first carbon neutral global media company.” What they are is the world’s first climate-science-neutering global media company. Shame on Rupert Murdoch and shame on Fox.

Joe,
You forget that Roger, not Rupert, controls Faux News. While Roger is making lots of money, it will remain that way. Rupert appreciates Roger’s money making ability, but seems a little scared of him.

The rest of the Murdoch empire toes the same line, but not as bat s### crazy.

Murdoch’s media Evil Empire in Australia pursues a totally biased agenda when it comes to climate science, then denies it with stupendous chutzpah. Name any negative psychological predisposition, character trait or behaviour, and a week’s reading of the Murdochian swill will find examples in abundance.
Just at the moment there finally is a growing groundswell of long over-due recognition that this organisation is a cancer on our society, pushing the country ever further to the nihilistic Right, bullying and intimidating politicians (easy enough, as most are opportunists with no moral backbone, whatsoever)and relentlessly portraying all public disputes in a totally biased fashion, complete with vicious character assassination of those opposed to Murdoch’s worldview, who are pursued and harried relentlessly, sometimes, as in the case of our most famous historian, Manning Clarke, even long after death.
News Corpse is defending itself by portraying opposition to its deranged hate speech as an imposition on ‘free speech’. Crude analogies to the USSR abound, and the possible, but highly unlikely given politicians’ cowardice in the face of intimidation, government regulation of content in the interests of media diversity, is met with hysterical (Murdoch’s thugs get hysterical quite readily) denunciations. That a democratically elected government might have some say in the probity and decency of the MSM is unacceptable, but that a foreign citizen, Murdoch, who controls 70% of the print media here, has total ideological control over those rags, and exercises it, as everybody knows, is completely fine, indeed the very definition of ‘Freedom of the press’. As ever, Murdoch’s apparat not only mimics Big Brother’s Ministry of Truth, it far outdoes it!

This is kind of like a gangster murdering a rival and then taking credit for paying for the funeral. Fox is a really virulent kind of evil, and a cancer on society.

The real crime is the apparent willingness of other media to either give them slack or admire their business model. Fox has to be called out by someone other than Keith Olbermann and Rolling Stone, and not just on hacking for gossip scandals, either. Let’s see what the Australian investigation comes up with.

It will come up with nothing, because the politicians still fear Murdoch, and many, particularly in the malignant New South Wales Right of the ALP (our Blue Dog Democrats) are actually agents, or employees, past and present, of the Evil Empire.

Mike, my father worked as a journo for News Corpse for years, He didn’t get involved in the political hanky-panky, and insisted that Rupert had once been a good newspaperman. But, in his opinion, starting from the move to the UK (Murdoch wanted Dad to move to London, but he preferred home turf)he moved far to the Right, in direct proportion to the degree that he grew indebted to pay for his expansion. And Rupert soon learned the tactics of harassment, intimidation and reward necessary to manipulate the spineless, amoral, opportunists who now infest politics throughout the West. After Murdoch launched his hate campaign against Whitlam in the 1970s, Dad detested him, but had no real alternative but to take the shilling. I’ve known journos all my life, and the creeps that infest News Corpse these days are a different type, more akin to the juvenile bully-boys of Rightwing University campus politics, than the bibulous, intelligent and world-weary, gossipers and bar-room Napoleons and Socrateses that I used to spend many a happy hour with. The more things change, the worse they get, I’m afraid. In Australia journalism is as dead as the dodo, murdered by Rupert Murdoch.